Argumentative Text
The core claim, the first paragraph of an argumentative essay
What is a Thesis?
Signifies ownership, or an omission of letters: represents this '
What is an apostrophe?
Compares something using like or as
What is a simile?
What is the text structure called when they compare and tell differences between different things
What is Compare and Contrast?
These are paragraphs but in Poetry, they are called ______
What is Stanza?
A good argumentative essay may contain ______ to back-up your thesis
What is Evidence/Reasons?
Signals a pause and can shorten direct quotes from a story.
What is an ellipsis?
Gives non-living objects human-like characteristics.
What is Personification?
what is it called when a story puts things into the order they occur.
What is Chronological Order?
Literary Device featuring the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds with nearby words
What is Assonance?
Historical documents used in argumentative essays are called __________
What is a Primary source?
Separates items and can signal a slight pause
What is a comma?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is Alliteration?
A sequence of connected events that make up a story
What is Plot?
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, (A)
How I wonder what you are. (A)
Up above the world so high, (B)
Like a diamond in the sky." (B)
What does this pattern represent?
What is Rhyme scheme?
A paragraph dedicated to challenge or disprove the opposing counter-argument
What is Rebuttal?
Used to insert editorial clarifications or add context to direct quotations
EX: He [John] left the room.
What is Brackets?
The formation of words that phonetically imitate the sound they describe.
What is Onomatopoeia?
What is it called when you use words such as Similarly, Because, first, next, or last?
What is Transition words/Signal words?
A traditional Japanese form of poetry which mainly focuses on nature is called ______
What is Haiku?
These can be used to be more credible, presuasive, or logical reasoning. Often called "Rhetorical Triangle"
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
a punctuation mark that connects closely related independent clauses
What is an Semicolon?
Phrases with non-literal meaning and Give an Example
EX: Its raining cats and dogs outside
What is an idiom and Answers will vary, but may include "Break a leg"
Something you would write next to paragraphs to understand stories clearly or to make a summary of the paragraph.
What is Paraphrasing/Summmarizing?
What is called when the specific structural pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Often called "The Rhythms beat"
What is Meter?